Sorry about the confusion. My posting alias is simply "Nathan"; it is my real first name. Looks like my first ... minor in linguistics. It's been a while, and obviously I need to dig out my old morphology text. Never mind. Freaky. I

I believe you're the original Nathan. I didn't realize there was another one; he should identify himself. Sorry about the confusion. My posting alias is simply "Nathan"; it is my real first name. Looks like my first post in this

Sorry if this isn't the best place to join the thread, but, as Eccles memorably said in reply to "What are you doing here?", "Everybody's got to be somewhere". I'm not getting a sense from the discussion of why it

Do you have any ideas about what my original family name may have been? It is my understanding that it arose somewhere in either Ukraine or Belarus. When I first saw your name pop up in AUE, my immediate thought was that it's a German place